New Hail, Caesar! Trailer Proves Ralph Fiennes Is Our Greatest Comedy Actor

The Coen brothers have just unleashed a new trailer for their new comedy thriller ‘Hail, Caesar!’ and it features a superb riff from Ralph Fiennes giving an acting lesson that had us crying with laughter.

Watch it above.

Having made his name in serious dramas like ‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘The English Patient’, for which he garnered two Oscar nominations, Fiennes has emerged as one of the best British comedy actors of his generation.

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In 2008′s ‘In Bruges’ he wowed as the ultra-sweary mob boss Harry Waters, while his turn as M. Gustave H in ‘The Grand Budapest’ hotel won him a handful of best actor award nominations, plus legions of new fans.

Here, in the Coens’ comedy set during Hollywood’s golden era, he plays Laurence Lorenz, an English filmmaker with the patience of a saint in what looks like another gut-busting comedy role.

The film also stars frequent Coens collaborator George Clooney playing a dimwitted actors whose kidnapping sets the plot the motion.

‘Hail, Caesar!’ is coming to cinemas on 4 March.

Image credits: Universal Pictures